Roosevelt Broad Powers Proposed By Democratic Leaders
Incoming president Franklin D. Roosevelt would gain broad authority to reorganize the federal government under a plan supported by Democratic leaders. The move, sparking Republican criticism, aims to grant sweeping power via resolution to back new structural changes when Roosevelt takes office in March.
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Washington
TNS
Franklin BD. Roosevelt
Betsion
Tiepube Neango
Hoover
Ousa
Rep
Buell
New York
Preston Hoover
Congress
Albany
Dee
Rooservel
Marel
Tate Slayer Gets Life in Uniontown Murder Case
In Uniontown Pa on December 20 two of three sons who pleaded guilty to murdering their father Tsiey Bad Man Tate, West Virginia cattleman, faced Judge John Morrow. George Tate was sentenced to life imprisonment for first degree murder. Sam Tate received a reformitory term. John Tate, paroled after pleading guilty to pocket theft from his father's money. The crime stemmed from a brutal, premeditated killing on a mountain trail following a motive of savage family abuse.
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Uniontown
Dev
Tsiey
Tate
West Virginia
John Morrow
George Tate
Uaydentown
Sam Yate
Tuntingdon Reformatory
John Tate
George
Dad Tatey
Vroadside
Barber Shop Explosion Kills One Man in Brownsville
In Brownsville Pa on December 30 a barber shop blast killed 40 year old Sam Marini and left Malas Astina badly burned as they went to check a fire. The shop owner was Pete Santanica. State police put damage at about $1000 with investigators on scene at Uniontown Hospital.
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Brownsville
Sam Marini
Malas Astina
Uniontown Hospital
Pete Santanica
Cokeville Man Fatally Burned in Home Fire
Thomas B. Dennison, 47, formerly of Cokeville near Blairsville, died after suffering burns from a house fire early yesterday morning. His funeral will be at his mother's Cokeville home Sunday at 2 p.m. with Rev. C. C. Carlile officiating. Burial in Derry Cemetery. He is survived by his mother and several siblings. Funeral arrangements at Ferguson Funeral Home, Blairsville.
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Thomas B. Dennison
Cokeville
Blairsville
Youngstown
C. C. Carlile
Cokeville Methodist Episcopal Church
Derry Cemetery
Clymer Fire Co Elects Officers for 1993
Clymer Volunteer Fire Co No 1 elected its 1993 officers at a regular meeting in Clymer. President H J Dunegan Vice President W A Garnagh Secretary C C Long Assistant Secretary Clarence Treese Financial Secretary H H Netrick Treasurer Mariano Sgriccia. Board of Directors Daniel Glenn J D Dunlap. retiring Beey Bianco. Chief George Davis First Asst Chief D W Lyle Second Asst Chief Thomas Butterworth Jr Third Asst Chief Clarence Treese. The president and chief and treasurer were re elected. The secretary has served for several years. The group discussed plans to improve in 1933 despite recent financial setbacks. Also noted were local residents Alexander Monteith admitted to Indiana Hospital with appendicitis and Mrs. [name] confined with influenza.
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Daniel Glenn
J. D. Dunlap
Mariano Sgriccia
Beey Bianco
George Davis
D. W. Lyle
Thomas Butterworth, Jr
Clarence Treese
H. J. Donegan
C. C. Long
Explosion Wrecks Munhall Home Involving Prisoners
Investigators probe a $15,000 Munhall explosion that blew a home apart and forced three prisoners to flee. Fire crews rescued 65 year old James McGague who crawled from an attic window to the porch while his wife and a maid escaped unharmed. Officials suspect accumulated gas as the cause.
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Munhale
Dee
Munhall
James MuGague
McGague
Big Order for Nat Fireproofing in Pittsburgh
Production work to fill a 60 carload tile order for the Groveland Ohio post office started at the National Fireproofing Corporation in Pittsburgh. Company officials said the order would keep one main plant at capacity for four months.
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Pittsbuurgh
New Groveland
Ohio
National Fireproofing Corporation
Four Bandits Hold Up Mill Payroll In Mass
Four bandits with sawed off shotguns stopped the Arkwright Mills payroll payment today in Fall River Massachusetts. They escaped in an automobile with twenty one thousand dollars.
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Fall River
Mass
Arkwright, Mills
Mystery surrounds murder at Fort Huachuca officers wives
At Fort Huachuca Arizona mystery surrounds the killings of Capt. Joseph R. Wessely and Capt. David A. Palmer and the wounding of Lieut. Harvey by James Abernathy a Black Private said to have believed in voodoo mysticism. Abernathy was killed by Corporal Peter Hardiey.
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Fort Huachuca
Ariz
United States Army
James Abernathy
Abernathy
Esteyanice
Vaodoo
Shelby scandal and grand jury testimony in Los Angeles
Mrs Charlotte Shelby mother of Mary Miles Minter testified before a grand jury in Los Angeles in an alleged theft case involving $400000 in securities. Sheriffs planned to sell the Shelby mansion after the family had invested a half million dollars. Mrs Shelby sought indictment of broker Leslie EH Henry.
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Charlotte Shelby
Mary Miles Minter
Los Angeles
Sheriff's
Shelbys
Shelby
Leslie EH
Henry
Teachers Accept 10 Percent Salary Cut Plan
Pennsylvania teachers end earlier opposition and agree to a temporary ten percent salary reduction. The plan links cuts to other state workers, preserves high education standards, and supports an income tax earmarked at least half for schools. Philadelphia will host the 1933 meeting.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Education Association
Philadelphia
Burnheimer Buys Half Interest in Barber Shop
J T Burnheimer of town buys one half interest in the barber shop next to Hank's Drug Store on Philadelphia street from Francis Smathers. Paul Baldugh owns the other half. both barbers will continue the same work. Burnheimer has barbered locally for five years and recently received a state certificate to operate.
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J.T. Burnheimer
Hank
Philadelphia Street
Francis Smathers
Paul Baldugh
Bornheimer
Pittsburgh
Truckman Hurt in Wm. Penn Wreck
John Godesky 29 of Pittsburgh employed by Darby Tywusfer and Storage Co. was injured when his truck skidded and overturned on the Wil Ham Penn Highway near Blairsville. He suffered a severed artery in the right hand, severe lacerations and abrasions and was treated at a Blairsville physician’s office after the crash near the Stoney Run bridge west of Blairsville.
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John Godesky
Pittsburgh
Darby Tywusfer and Storage Company
Wil Ham Penn
Bluitsville
Godesky
Ile
Blairsville
Stoney Run Bridge
Curb Market Specials Tomorrow At D M Stews Co Store
Curb Market will be held again tomorrow Saturday morning at the D M Stews Co Store room. County Agent notes a fine assortment of farm products offered at each market and farmers seek town cooperation as buyers. Tomorrow will feature items fit for the New Year’s holiday along with staple produce.
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D. M. Stews & Co
TMU
New York Prepares for New Year's Celebrations
New York on December 30 1933 readies for New Year festivities as hotels and night clubs report crowded tables and low cover charges from 2.50 to 20 dollars. Steamship lines offer four day trips at 50 dollars minimum while Broadway gears up for the annual merrymaking barrage. Police plan a no parking for pedestrians rule mirroring election night. Theatres stage special New Year’s Eve shows amid rising advance sales.
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David P. Sentiur
INS
New York
Apel
Fair Sex
Northwest Mounted Police
Broadway
Foreign concern buys glass plant in Butler
Closing transactions in the sale of the Standard Plate Glass Company of Butler to Societe de Saint Gobain for 406000 were to be consummated today. Negotiations were conducted by GO EK Frazier of Washington PA, but he is connected with the foreign concern. The Saint Gobain group in America is headed by Eugene Genul. Receivers took over operations at the Standard plant May 1 1480.
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Butler
Standard Plate Glass Company
Societe de Saint Gobain
GO. EK. Frazier
Washington
St. Gobain Company
America
Eugene Genul
Standard
Probe Death Of Kensington Man
A probe into the death of Carlo Andres, 42, whose body was found in a second floor room of his home in New Kensington, Pa after his disappearance last Monday, was conducted today. The body lay on a bed, doors locked from the inside, suggesting death occurred about three days earlier. A blow to the head is indicated by marks on the body.
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New Kensington
Dee
Carlo Andres
William Spisak, Jr
Andres
Feared Slain McCoin Mystery Haunts Columbus
Columbus police seek Tenderson NC attorney to prove McGoin death hoax after Christmas Eve sighting and blood stained car. Investigators checked tips about a man resembling McCoin, a car found in a Columbus garage, and a Chicago to North Carolina to Maryland murder letter. Body location remains unfounded.
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Columbus
Dee, &C
McCain
Tenderson
N. C
McCoin
McQoin
McGoin
North Carolina
Chicago
Hagerstown
Sales Tax Hearing Set in Washington Next Week
The House Ways and Means Committee will consider Rep. McLeod of Michigan and a 1 percent general sales tax amid President-elect Roosevelt’s stance. Rep. Collier said all revenue proposals will be reviewed while other suggestions include a one cent press tax and a tax on chain store interstate sales. businessmen urge 50 percent federal spending cuts instead of tax increases. A stamp tax broadening proposal could raise about 75 million dollars.
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Washington
INS
House
Ways and Means
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collier
Mississippi
McLead
Michigan
Rep
Griffin
New York
McKeown
Oklahoma
Labor Protests Abort U S Office Closings Plan
Washington December 50 The House appropriations committee reports the annual efficiency bill providing a $200000 fund to continue work and avert feared U S employment office closures. The measure trims $12,285,188 from the president budget estimates and carries $34,491,520. It lowers income tax refund additions from $40,000,000 to $28,000,000 and restores cost limits for the new Philadelphia naval hospital to $23,000,000. Details cover relief for the unemployed in DC forest fire fighting funds and oil land claims in the California Hig Hills reserve.
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Washiington
U. 5
House Appropriations Committee
Labor Department
Laimon
Rapartot
House
Senate
Speaker Garner
Curtis
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
Matluve
District of Columbia
Department of Jusce
W. Carr Morrow
William Scallon
Hic Hills Naval Oil Reserve
California
Standard Oil of
Runaway Girl Ready for Home
Dora Garvey a one year old High School girl from Tarentum wandered with a companion on a world tour beginning November 5 sought fame and fortune but was stopped by police in Bulgaldo local today her companion deserted her ten days earlier authorities planned to arrange transportation back to Tarentum for reunification with her family.
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Bulpalo
Dora Garvey
Tarentum
Dora
Police Head For Liquor Control in Nationwide Debate
New York dispatch reports Police Commissioner Kedlward Mulrooney urging repeal of the 18th Amendment as essential to curb gang violence racketeering and bootlegging. He warned that unless states enact intelligent repeal and enforce new laws the current troubles cannot be resolved.
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New York
INS
Squar
Kedlward 2
Mulrooney
Columbia University
Two Men Found Shot To Death In Munroe
Two men were found shot to death in an automobile on Gore Street today. Roth had been shot through the head. Police received a report of the incident and are investigating the double homicide.
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Munroe, Mich
Dee
iNs
Mongore Street
Roth
Eleven Cities Bid For Schmeling Fight
New York promoter Jack Dempsey said eleven cities including Philadelphia Pittsburgh Los Angeles Agua Caliente Cleveland Detroit Salt Lake City Denver Chicago New York and Dayton Ohio are bidding to host the Max Schmeling Max Baer heavyweight title bout.
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New York
Dev
Itls
Bigvern
Max Schmeling
Max Baer
Jack Depsey
Philadelphi
Pittsburgh
Los Angeles
Agia Caliente
Cleveland
Detroit
Salt Lake City
Denver
Chicago
Dayton
Treasury balance reported for December eighth period
Treasury balance listed as 589,060,248.77 dollars with expenditures and receipts shown. The fragment shows a balance along with a separate amount 1,637,264.27 and other figures likely from a financial ledger.
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Treasury
Neglected Beauty Seeks Divorce From Hollywood Cameraman
Muriel Finley Cronjager told a Los Angeles court that her husband neglected her after years as a celebrated beauty. She cited that prominent artists and stars once saved her pose, including Henry Oliva Jolinta Galta and James Montgomery Flinge, as she described her faded relationship with Howard Cronjager.
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Emintty
Muriel Finley Cronjager
Los Angeles
Howard Cronjager
Hollywood Film
Trenry Oliva
Jolinta Galta
James Montgomery Flnge
Muriel
Funeral Services for Helen Steffy Held in Rossinsea
Funeral services are set for Helen Steffy 1a year old, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Steffy, who died yesterday at Indiana Hospital from complications of diseases. Rev John A McGamey will lead at Rossinsea Funeral Home North Seventh Street at 1 pm tomorrow. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may visit 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm today. She is survived by her parents three brothers Raymond Jack William and two sisters Wynona and Dorothy Jean all at home. She attended Ket Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Helen Steffy
John Steffy
Indiana Hospital
Rossinsea
North Seventh Street
John A. McGamey
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Raymond
Jack
William Stents
Wynona
Dorothy Jean Steffy
Ket Methodist Episcopal Church
Dominick Dominick Antolini
Homer City
S&s P.m
Italy
Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company
Sons of Italy Lodge
St. Louis Catholic Church
Luscome Mines
St. Louis
Accidental Gun Discharge Kills Man Near Washington
In Washington district a man named Andrew Surgus, 24, from Daisytown, died after a firearm discharged in the hands of his friend while returning from a practice in the woods. Coroner Joseph Tinka reported the weapon, a four‑marked model, was being showed by Joseph Robschinsky, 21, of Ostleytown, when it went off.
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Washington
INS
Prwlice
Wo Woods
Andrew Surgus
Daisytown
Here
Joseph Tinka
Joseph Robschinsky
Ostleytown
Will of Peter J. Post Promotes Celebratory Feast
The will of Peter J. Post, former Ovid banker, directs a posthumous banquet for about 200 friends at Hotel Irwin funded by his estate, with a five-person committee to arrange it. It also provides a $100 gift to the county Democratic committee to deter theft and a church ladies’ society fund for ten local churches.
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Peter J. Post
Ovid Barker
Irwin
Democrat County Committee of
Huron
Post
Two Girls Held as Shoplifters
Two 13-year-old girls from Brenig Westmoreland County mining near Blairsville were held for arraignment after police arrested them for shoplifting. They allegedly concealed two pairs of shoes and a carton of candy in bags, with merchandise recovered and returned to owners. Two accomplices fled with them in hitchhiking escape toward Indiana.
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Brenig Westmoreland County
Blairsville
Jay D. Hill
Willard
Jo2Ni Langham
George Anderson
William Kelley
Turner
Indiana
Rae
Petition seeks end to ICC grain rate inquiry
Washington December reports the Chicago Board of Trade and eleven Midwest grain and trade groups asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to dismiss its investigation of grain freight rates. The ICC has been hearing hearings on the issue during February at the urging of agricultural interests seeking lower transportation costs.
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Washington
INS
Chicago Board of ‘Trade
Midwest Grain and Trade
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Over Million Auto Registrations Reported for 1998
Harrisburg December 30 reports from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles show auto registrations for 1998 exceeding the million mark. As of yesterday, registrations stood at 1,040,800, still about 94,000 below last year’s total on the same date.
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Harrisburg
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Farrer
Chicago Crime Sweep Targets Capone Network
Police raid downtown offices linked to Capone’s gang, detaining Sylvester Awomtico of New York and Mike Costello of Chicago. Authorities tie Aguelit Lee to murders and $2,000,000 in illicit sales to Capone breweries. Detective squad under Sergeant Harry Miller led the operation. Nitti, Capone’s banking associate, was injured in a gun duel.
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CTV
HUNS
AL Caepes
Abe Ton
Cermik
Sylvester Awomtico
New York
Mike Costelly
Chicago
Aguelit
Lee
Cust Verte Ellits
Costello
Reeve Ituseeal
Capone Breweries
Harry Miller
W Frank
Nitti
Inp
Capone
Wang
Setak
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Clymer Fire CO
H. J. Dunegan
Clymer
Alexander Monteith
Franklin Street
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C. B. C. Courson
Nat
NEA
Burnheimer
Truckman
WM. Penn
Kensington
Neeny
R. S. McCain
Henderson
N.C
Britain
U. S
Majestic
LABOR
Liquor Control
Schmeling Fight
Helen Steffey
Lepanae
Puneral
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Homerty
Mome
St. Bernard's Catholic Church
St. Bernard
Ue Streams
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Ory
Brenizer Wero
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